Hollywood star Tom Sizemore's betrayal of Liz Hurley

It is every actress’s worst nightmare – an indiscretion she believed was dead and buried in her past comes back to haunt her 20 years later.
That’s the situation Elizabeth Hurley now finds herself in.
The 47-year-old will this week endure intimate details of her relationship with Hollywood actor Tom Sizemore going public – when his tell-all memoir of Hollywood life is published on Thursday.
Sizemore, 51, who starred in Natural Born Killers and Saving Private Ryan before spiralling into drug addiction, devotes an entire chapter to their three-year liaison.
In it, he paints Liz – then the girlfriend of Hugh Grant – as a seductress who he fell in love with on the 1992 set of Passenger 57.
Two years later, she was catapulted into the limelight after wearing that Versace dress to the premiere of Grant’s Four Weddings And A Funeral. Here, in an exclusive extract from his memoir, Sizemore tells of their clandestine affair.

Liz Hurley, now 47, had a three-year affair with Tom Sizemore while she was also dating Hugh Grant

One of my first leading roles was in a movie called Passenger 57 –but, honestly, what was most memorable about that entire experience was that it introduced me to Elizabeth Hurley.
I remember when I first saw her, four days into the movie, at the initial script read-through in Orlando, Florida. I’d never seen a girl that beautiful. She had stunningly flawless ivory skin, a beautiful voice and a charming, throaty laugh.
Wesley Snipes, whom I’d known for a long time and who was one of the stars of the film, saw her at the same time. He looked at me and said, ‘You can have the black girl,’ meaning the actress who was playing the other stewardess. I saw that he might be serious about hitting on Elizabeth so right then I walked across the room to where she was at a table getting a brownie or something.
I started to introduce myself to her and she said: ‘I know who you are.’ I think I stammered: ‘What?’ And she said: ‘I’m in room 219 and you’re in 119. It’s on the cast list.’
I said something like: ‘I have to apologise but I’m kind of a neophyte when it comes to talking to women as beautiful as you.’
And she said: ‘A neophyte? I love you.’ I laughed and said, ‘It’s that easy?’ and she said: ‘I’m sorry, I meant that I love the fact you know the word neophyte.’ I laughed and asked her to dinner, explaining that I was a neophyte at that, too.

 

Later that night, we went to an Italian restaurant in central Florida, then went back to her room and drank wine and listened to The Beatles. We just kind of cuddled and sang the songs to each other and hung out, and then I went home.  I didn’t even try to kiss her. I felt like she was just too pretty to kiss. To me, her beauty blocked everything out. It was actually really unhealthy because I let her beauty keep me in a subordinate position. I literally couldn’t conceal my awe or worshipful feelings for her.
The next day she came by my room and said: ‘Come on, we’re going to get some magazines and books.’ We drove to a Borders store, and she bought Madame Bovary and a bunch of other books. I was impressed.
That night we went back to her hotel room, which had a little kitchenette, and she made roasted chicken with green beans and broke out two bottles of wine. I think I was in love by the time I had my second glass.
Then she went into the bedroom and came out in lingerie that would make her later outfits in the Austin Powers movies seem tame, and she got on the coffee table and stripped. And it was a goddamn good routine, too. She knew what she was doing because in the middle of it she looked at me and asked: ‘Is it too bright for you?’ 

 

 

Big shots:Tom Sizemore, left, starring in Saving Private Ryan with Tom Hanks

And then she got down and dimmed the lights and got back up and started dancing to music.
I was 26, which means I got aroused if someone attractive breathed heavily across the room. And after she was done with her routine, we had sex. It was wonderful. Usually when you make love to somebody for the first time, you see the potential but because one of you is a little nervous, it isn’t all that it can be. This was spectacular from the beginning.
I essentially moved into her room for the rest of the shoot and after the movie wrapped, we went back to LA.
And that’s when I found out that she already had a boyfriend back in England: Hugh Grant. He hadn’t done Four Weddings And A Funeral yet, and I didn’t know who he was – I just figured he was some out-of-work British actor.
Little did I know that everyone knew he was going to be a movie star any minute and he was a friend of Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown. Once I found out about him, Elizabeth started being honest with me about it. I’d be at her place and she’d say: ‘Hugh is coming in nine days – when do you think you should start taking your things out?’
I’d get tearful and not let her see it. I just loved her. I didn’t see other girls, didn’t talk about other girls – I was completely enraptured and in her world. But then Hugh would come into town and I’d say to my friends, ‘I’m done, I don’t have to deal with this, I can go out with this other girl who likes me,’ but I could never do it. I’d make dates with people when he was there, but I never kept them.

Star Pair: Liz Hurley with Hugh Grant in 2000

It hurts me to say this because she was never really mine, but in many ways Elizabeth was the seminal relationship of my young adulthood. She taught me a lot about myself. She taught me that I wasn’t who I thought I was. I’d always thought I was the kind of person who’d never take that kind of treatment from a girl, and what I learned is that I’ll take a lot of things from a girl if I love her, and, in fact, I’ll take too much. I really lost myself in Elizabeth Hurley. I didn’t do what was best for me. I blew off an audition once just to drive her to the airport when she didn’t have a ride.
Eventually, I was able to get out of my relationship with Elizabeth but I never really got over her – I just moved on out of emotional necessity. I even ended up dating a friend of hers years later – a British socialite named Linda Evans who lived in the same house with Elizabeth, where all these young actor guys would hang out.  People like Gary Oldman and Robert Downey Jnr and a boxer named Gary Stretch.
The last time Elizabeth and I saw each other romantically was heartbreaking. I called her up and said: ‘I can’t do this any more.’
We went to walk her dog, right after Hugh had left town for the 13th time in the three years we were together. I was sitting in her car afterwards and I just started crying and she said: ‘Don’t cry. Let’s walk the dog.’
She didn’t like tears – no Brits do. They’ve been bombed by the Nazis: they’re tough. She said: ‘Tom, I’m begging you, please stop it – I feel bad enough.’
She never meant to hurt me – it was just one of those situations. You have to be very mature and sophisticated when handling the intricacies of two people and you throw in a third person; throw in the word love too, and it can be very complicated for somebody who’s the object of affection for two different men. And I have to say, Hugh Grant is a wonderful guy. He’s truly gifted and also a kind, soft-spoken, humble man.
I always liked him, but I’ve grown to love him for the way he’s taken on the phone-hacking situation. He’s a guy who does the right thing. Except, of course, in the case of Divine Brown. And look, I get it: he likes being with different people. So do I. He just should have done it at home. But my point is that in the end, Elizabeth’s loyalty was to Hugh.
A spokesman for Elizabeth Hurley said that the British star  would make no comment on the book.

- By Some Miracle I Made It Out Of There, by Tom Sizemore and Anna David, Atria Books, £18.99. For your copy at the special price of £14.99, with free p&p, call the Mail Book Shop on  0844 472 4157 or visit  mailbookshop.co.uk

And his revelations about his flings with other stars

Tom Sizemore is mercilessly candid about his affairs. On the mystery Hollywood star he slept with for three years, he says:

Lovers: Sizemore with Heidi Fleiss. He says they took crystal meth together

‘In 1989, I got a call from the assistant to a big shot in the industry – literally the biggest star in the world at the time – and was told, “She wants to meet you.”

‘When I got there I was brought into an anteroom and then this superstar walked in, sat down, and said, “So tell me about yourself.”

‘By the time I actually got into her bedroom, I wasn’t nervous, even though part of me was thinking, “You’re the biggest female star that ever lived – you’re a shot-caller. What the Hell are you doing here with me?” But I ended up sleeping with her. She liked me.’
On 18-year-old ‘wild child’ Juliette Lewis, his co-star in 1994 film Natural Born Killers, he says:

‘I knew Brad Pitt, her former boyfriend, so I’d asked him back then  if it was OK if I went after Juliette. He said, “Is it OK? I’ll drive you there! I want to be your agent on this one!”

‘By the time Juliette showed up on the set of Natural Born Killers, I already had a huge crush on her. She was standing watching me and when the scene was done, she said something like, “Hey, Tom, that was really good. I’ve often wanted to be strangled to death.”

‘I said, “Whenever you want to be strangled to death, you know who to call.” Later that night we used drugs and had sex. We were at the Best Western getting high and for some reason ordered 29 bowls of corn flakes.When the movie wrapped, I spent a lot of time at Juliette’s $2.5 million Hollywood home, which had no furniture in it. She never wanted to leave, ever – not even to go outside. Essentially we were really high and really rich.’

 

On his then future wife, the tennis professional-turned-actress Maeve Quinlan, he says:

‘I saw what had to be the prettiest extra in the history of extras: she had blonde hair, beautiful teeth and an unbelievable body.

‘I was standing next to Woody Harrelson when I saw her. We started taking bets [on who would sleep with her first]. I said, “Robert”, talking about Downey. He said, “I bet it’s you or me – or maybe Oliver [Stone]. How about  I go second and you go third?” And I said, “I don’t care when I go, as long  as I get a chance.” ’

On taking crystal meth with former Hollywood madam – and one-time girlfriend – Heidi Fleiss, he says:

‘One of the first nights she came over to my house, Heidi laid out a little bit of [crystal] meth on the dresser in my bedroom. I did a line. Ten seconds later, I was flying.

‘It was the most intense thing I’d ever felt. I turned around and said, “Are you trying to kill me?” She didn’t answer because she was already taking off her clothes.

‘At that moment I want her more than I wanted to breathe.’